Example sentences of "was [adv] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 2 | Scotland 's accelerated industrial development , within what was still in many respects a primitive agrarian society , meant that the archetypes of country and town , nature and manufacture , adopted an almost grotesquely heightened stance as they entered literary language . |
| 3 | For that reason it was probably in those districts where consensus management had worked well that general management succeeded most . |
| 4 | So the vote in Banbury was really in some ways quite surprising , but for those of us locally we were quietly confident that the parents would see the commonsense and logic of the argument and would not vote to opt out . |
| 5 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |
| 6 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 7 | President Julio Lacidar said that although the country was backward in some respects the First Five Year Plan would help launch the new nation . |
| 8 | Much more choleric than his brother — who was never in those years very far from outright rudeness — Wilson offended people , and important people , right and left . |